Re: Connecting a specific custom property to a SCOP group

["Alan Jones" <skyphyr(at)gmail.com>]

Hi Andy,

Testing my memory here, but I think the fix to this is to make to your
two in ports seperate groups. (i.e. one group per port).

Cheers,

Alan.

On 7/31/06, Andy Nicholas <andy(at)andynicholas.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm having a major problem trying to connect a specific custom property to
> a scripted operator. My ports look like this:
>
> <obj>.kine.global   (IN)
> <obj>.MyProperty    (IN)
> <obj>.kine.global   (OUT)
>
> When I first create the operator, it's not a problem to specify the exact
> connections because I use the ApplyOperator command like this:
>
> ApplyOperator("KineOperator",
>               "[sphere.kine.global,sphere.MyProperty,sphere.kine.global]");
>
> This allows me to specify the custom property "MyProperty" to be used. If
> I don't do that, I have the problem where it will just connect to the
> first CustomProperty that exists underneath the object, rather than the
> one I want it to connect to.
>
> My issue, is that I want to be able to connect multiple objects to this
> operator. So I want to be able to do this:
>
> operator.ConnectToGroup(0, box_obj);
>
> to connect other objects to the same operator after I've created it.
>
> The problem with this, is that I'm not able to specify the exact
> connection set. As a result, the first custom property underneath the
> object gets connected instead of the one I want.
>
> Does anyone know of a way round this problem?
>
> BTW, my property is a self installed custom property. Is it possible to
> create a custom property with an SPDL? If I could, then I'd be able to
> specify the custom property's GUID in the port definition and all would be
> fine.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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